MFPs are useful assets to help manage and control costs for printing and imaging, and also add new capabilities to your organization. Consider how MFPs can address total cost of ownership for printing and imaging assets, better consolidation and management of resources across the organization, and improve business process efficiency.

• Does the vendor provide fact-based tools and methods to help you assess current TCO and estimate return on investments?
• Is there a common, modular architecture across the product family?
• Do different product models perform the same functions the same way across the product family?
• How well does it reduce time and resources for document production and distribution?
• Is the architecture designed from the ground up for serviceability, modularity, functionality and ease of network administration?
• Is the product priced competitively with comparable stand-alone devices?
• How well does it enable asset consolidation with performance equal or superior to its single functions equivalent?
• Are supply costs competitive?
• How much space savings does it provide through compact design?
• Does it allow you to have only one maintenance contract?
• Does the vendor provide consultative services if needed?
• Is it upgradeable — providing the option of upgrading one model to another, or adding new features and functions, without incurring the expense of replacing the old with the new model to get new features or functionality?

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